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Lockheed Martin Provides F-35 Flight-test Update

Lockheed Martin F-35 flight testing is ahead of the 2012 plan and software development is making up lost ground, now standing at two months behind schedule

Flight-testing of the F-35 recently included the first weapons drops. Here, a 1,000-pound GPS-guided GBU-32 JDAM is released from an F-35B flying at 4,200 feet and 400 knots. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

By Chris Pocock • Defense Correspondent

October 19, 2012

Flight-testing of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is ahead of the 2012 plan, and software development is making up lost ground, now standing at two months behind schedule. Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed Martin’s v-p for F-35 program integration and business development, told a meeting in London sponsored by The Air League that the F-35B STOVL version that the UK will buy is 40 percent ahead on flights and test points. Of the nine million lines of software code in the aircraft, 87 percent is now in flight test, with another 6 percent in laboratory tests. In response to earlier concerns, Lockheed Martin established a second software laboratory at its Fort Worth facility, at a cost of $150 million and employing 200 more people.

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